TABLE OF CONTENTS - Lindbergh School District

Concept A: Interdependence of Organisms and their
Environment
Given a scenario describing how human efforts have adversely
affected the stability and/or diversity of an ecosystem (e.g.
destruction caused by direct harvesting, pollution, atmospheric
changes), devise a multi-step plan to restore the stability and/or
biodiversity of that ecosystem.
Concept B; Interdependence of Organisms and their
Environment
Predict and explain how natural or human caused changes
(biological, chemical, or physical) in one ecosystem may affect
another ecosystem.
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Students will use the Internet to
research the restoration of various
endangered species throughout the
United States.
(1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.10, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2,
3.6, 4.1, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, SC4, SC8)
Students will discuss how recent
events affected multiple ecosystems.
(Taum Sauk Reservoir, Mt. St.
Helen's, Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina,
overuse of fertilizers)
Students will devise a multi-step plan
to restore a specified endangered
species population.
Students will evaluate the
consequences of the Midwest Flood
of 1993 on other ecosystems.
Concept C: Interdependence of Organisms and their
Environment
Explain the mechanisms (e.g. global wind patterns, water cycle,
ocean currents) by which environmental changes (biological,
chemical, or physical) may have global impact.
Concept A: Biodiversity
Predict the impact (beneficial or harmful) of a natural
environmental event (e.g. fire, flood, volcanic eruption,
avalanche) may have on the diversity of different species in an
ecosystem.
Concept B: Biodiversity
Describe possible causes of extinction of a population (e.g.
rainforest destruction, habitat degradation or
fragmentation)(endangered v. threatened).
Concept A: Climate
Provide evidence (e.g. melting glaciers, fossils, desertification)
that supports theories of climate change due to natural
phenomena and/or human interactions (greenhouse effect).
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(1.6, 1.10, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.6, 4.1,
SC4, SC8)
Students will be presented with
information on El Niño and its
relationship to increased hurricane
activity.
(1.5, 1.6, 2.4, 3.5, SC5, SC8)
Students will be presented with
information on prairie restoration.
(1.5, SC4)
Students will choose an endangered
or extinct species and evaluate the
cause of their status.
(1.5, 3.5, 4.1, SC4, SC8)
Students will conduct Internet
research to provide a list of causes
and effects of the greenhouse effect in
the biosphere.
Students will predict how a severe
hurricane season would affect the
Midwest.
Students will discuss several impacts
of fires on prairies.
Students will read and summarize an
article that discusses the decrease in
songbird populations.
Students will formulate several ways
to lessen greenhouse effects.
(1.2, 1.4, 1.10, 2.3, 4.1, SC5)
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